Beverly Acha (b. 1987, Miami, FL) makes paintings, drawings, and prints. Rooted in observation, her work captures the intangible sensorial and psychological experience of space through color and repetition. Often working in series, Acha’s paintings build a distinct visual language and logic in response to the environment in which they are made. Referencing architecture, diagrams, and landscape, her core concern is the perceptual slippage within these systems, the spaces between knowing and seeing, experience and memory, and the real and the imagined.
Acha's recent solo exhibitions include IZZY LEE (Los Angeles, CA), Deanna Evans Projects (NYC), and Emerson Dorsch (Miami, FL), and recent group exhibitions include Brattleboro Museum (VT); Albuquerque Museum (NM); DC Moore Gallery (NYC); Main Projects (Richmond, VA); Dinner Gallery (NYC); Hesse Flatow East (Amagansett, NY); North Loop (Williamstown, MA); Zürcher Gallery (NYC); 1969 Gallery (NYC); and the Ildiko Butler Gallery at Fordham University (NYC). In 2025, Acha completed her first public art commission: a monumental 32-foot oil painting for the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center commissioned by Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places (Miami, FL).
Acha's work has been supported by residencies and fellowships including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, MacDowell, Fountainhead, Lighthouse Works, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. She is a recipient of awards including the FST StudioProjects Fund Award, Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award, Peyser Prize in Painting, and the Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant. Her work has been featured in publications including New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, ArtMaze Magazine, Diacritics, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Acha's work is in private collections and public collections including the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, FL; El Espacio 23: The Collection of Jorge M. Pérez, Miami, FL; Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; and the Soho House Collection, London, UK among others.
Acha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018), holds a BA from Williams College (2009), and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art (2012). She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.